Pauline Hanson’s web obsession: Cybersquatting for politics not profit | TimBiggs
, including variations on the above as well as VoiceToParliament, with .com, .net, .org and .au suffixes.
“The ‘yes’ campaign is ill-defined and ill-prepared, not even having the foresight to register the domain names we will use to good effect,” Hanson said.“Will the Albanese government guarantee equal funding for both campaigns? It’s the only fair approach, however, One Nation will not wait for the Prime Minister’s excuses.”
But in addition to squatting on a domain to sell it, businesses might register a competitor’s name and try to redirect traffic to their own site, similar to how businesses buy Google ads based on searches for their rivals. One thing that could stand in the party’s way are the strict rules employed by the AuDA, the regulator in charge of Australian domain names. Registrants need to have a connection to Australia to use a domain ending in .au, and domain names must be closely related to registrant’s name, trademark or business, or a service that they provides,But while the AuDA could veto One Nation’s .au registrations, the other websites would be left standing.
“If you want it, small business owners, I urge you to take a few minutes and few dollars to register it or potentially face someone else grabbing it and using it to digitally ambush your business, to demand big dollars later to surrender it to you, or misuse it to masquerade as you or to help them engage in cybercrime.”